Thanks to Ian Mcanerin, who suggested the Canadian government's new TLD - .gov.ca (the humble fellow isn't taking credit, far too gentlemanly). The debate on what to choose was relatively interesting, with the French Canadian contigent complaining bitterly that .gouv.ca was not the choice. B...
I talked to some very smart folks last night over dinner about Craigslist and their position in the market. Currently, CL is the leader in online classifieds, they've had great success porting their model to other cities and countries and they have a built-in loyalty and fan base that rivals that of any online user-generated-content site. The question is - w...
As promised, here's a quick run-down of the new features on SEOmoz. Search - This will search the entire site. It needs some fine tuning, but it's effective for the time being. Threaded blog comments - You can now reply to individual comments rather than just the blog entry itself. Th...
I thought this site summed up the Internet's general feeling towards Valentine's Day. I'm not particularly against the day - it's always nice to go out to a fancy restaurant in a nice suit. I just wish it weren't so crowded or hard to get reservations... ...
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My friend Scott Fish dropped me a line on this neat little opportunity to pick up domain names at a very nice price: On Tuesday, the 14th between 4pm est until 5pm est Dotster.com is giving away $1...
I've been referencing a lot of folks to our recommended list lately, but we're finding that many come back without a satisfactory target, particularly when they're seeking local folks. I thought I'd ask the readers if they have recommended lists of their own with SEOs, web developers, designers, marketers, hosts, etc. that could be used to help expand whe...
Alan Bellows' Damn Interesting is practically an entire collection of pure linkbait articles - the kind that not only make for good reading, but have to be linked to, emailed, and searched for at friend's houses in order to show them what they're missing. Just a quick dissection of how he does it so well: It's not just him - there's a...
In order to move past the very sad day we've just had here in Seattle, I've got an entirely new, off-the-wall subject. Via Plankie's post at HighRankings, I came across some nifty...
Since I know that most of the readers here are big fans of free content, I figured this review of Bittorrent clients by Michael Calore might be of interest. His final take for Windows users is µTorrent and for Mac, the official Bittor...
Anybody getting good traffic from StumbleUpon.com? That site first started getting my attention a few months ago while examining my logs. I didn't think that it would be a serious source of traffic but the referrals have gone up and now I am avera...
Back in the days before the web, many of the MS Windows bundles games had "back to work" buttons that would open up a blank spreadsheet document on top of the game in order to "hide" a worker's activities from perusing bosses doing their walk around. Hilarious...
The re-design of SEOmoz has proven itself to be a very difficult and time consuming task, as you can see I'm still working on the header. Rand suggested I write a blog entry so you can all see how things are coming along and share in my turmoil. :) Some of the designs turned out okay, others are just plain horrible. I've found my best work comes by accident, so I often just ...
I want to extend a warm welcome to Michael Martinez, who's agreed to join SEOmoz's blog team at my request. I know. I know. Michael's not your typical personality ...
With so many phone calls coming in nowadays, I thought it might be interesting to diagram the anatomy of what a request for services call to SEOmoz looks like. Because the number on the website routes directly to my cellphone when I'm not in the office, I get calls at 5:30am and 10:00pm, even on the weekends. Naturally, I turn the phone to silent when I'm sleeping, but I've had calls wi...